Nate Ruess

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Nate
Ruess was born on 26th February 1982 in Iowa city, Iowa, USA. He is
a songwriter specializing in vocals and is a sampler. He has been active since
the year 2001 to the current time.

About

Nathanial
Joseph “Nate” Ruess is an American songwriter, musician and singer. He is a
lead vocalist of Fun, an indie pop band and was the lead for Format. Currently,
he also performs solo at times.

His early life

Ruess
was born to Bess Zinger and Larry Ruess. He has an elder sister called
Elizabeth. John Ruess, his uncle used to be a Broadway performer and he has
been a big influence on the musical ventures of Ruess.

In
the year 1986, Ruess and family moved to Glendale Arizona because of the
pneumonia bouts that he faced during his childhood. He attended school at the
deer valley High School and graduated in 2000. While at school, he played in
bands and after graduating, he chose to venture into music professionally.

He
claims he is not so much into taking lessons and the only way he felt he would
learn was to put different kinds of music from people who were hard to mimic
and try all the notes. He worked in a law firm as he pursued his musical career
so as to support himself.

At
19 years of age, the year 2001, Format was launched together with Sam Means, a
longtime friend. This was the very first of his endeavors to gain attention far
and wide.

Career

After
the Format’s formation, there was a release of five songs in demo and was
titled EP. This generated local interest and at that time, Elektra records
signed them up in the year 2002.their first studio album was titled
interventions + lullabies and was released on 21st October, 2003.
This led to more mainstream success locally. The fan base started growing and
they released snails with the Atlantic records in 2005. Atlantic dropped them
when they were working on the second album titled Dog Problems. They then
created The Vanity Label and the album was released on 10th July
2006. Through his blog, he said they will not be another album and the group
was broken.

After
the split, Fun was created with Andrew Dost and Jack Antonoff. The first studio
album was called Aim and Ignite and it received positive reviews peaking at 71.
On February 2012, they released a second album called Some Nights. This album
was a huge success.

They
got a Grammy award for We Are Young. Ruess has been a vocalist for many songs
in different genres.

Rues the solo artist

On
5th February 2015, Fun posted a letter where they told their fans
that they were not creating any new album but they had their own projects that
they were pursuing as individuals.

When
Fun was founded, the three of them were just coming out of other bands and the
best thing about the band is the fact that they exist individually coming
together to make collaboration. They said Nate was making a solo album.

Ruess
said that sometimes you can get selfish with your songs and this is why he felt
the need to write and sing for himself. He has had great success and all eyes
are on him to see what he pulls next.